Henning von VogelsangA very well-written article, which explains the audacious claim in its title. It highlights the development from a pure republic to an understanding of democracy, and why that is failing today.

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising